Apache PDFBox® - A Java PDF Library

The Apache PDFBox® library is an open source Java tool for working with
PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents.
Apache PDFBox also includes several command-line utilities.
Apache PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.16 released2019-06-27

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 2.0.16. It is available for download at:

Getting Help

The project is a volunteer effort and we’re always looking for interested people to help
us improve PDFBox. There are a multitude of ways that you can help us depending on your
skills. Subscribe to the Mailing Lists and find out how you can help.

Features

Extract Text

Extract Unicode text from PDF files.

Split & Merge

Split a single PDF into many files or merge multiple PDF files.

Fill Forms

Extract data from PDF forms or fill a PDF form.

Preflight

Validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b standard.

Print

Print a PDF file using the standard Java printing API.

Save as Image

Save PDFs as image files, such as PNG or JPEG.

Create PDFs

Create a PDF from scratch, with embedded fonts and images.

Signing

Digitally sign PDF files.

News

CVE-2019-0228 XML External Entity vulnerability2019-04-12

Due to a XML External Entity vulnerability we strongly recommend to update to the most recent version of Apache PDFBox.

Versions Affected:
Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 only

Mitigation:
Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 2.0.15

Apache PDFBox 2.0.15 released2019-04-11

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 2.0.15. It is available for download at: